| "What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote." E.M. Forster |
| "Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery." Mark Amidon |
| "A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart." Peggy Noonan |
| "Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen." Leonardo da Vinci |
| "Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets." Baltasar Gracian |
| "The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people." Karl Marx |
| "Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchett |
| "A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it." Alfred Hitchcock |
| "The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen." Tommy Smothers |
| "Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket." Henri Rabaud |
| "Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest." Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson |
| "The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera." W. Eugene Smith |
| "The film industry is about saying ‘no' to people, and inherently you cannot take ‘no' for an answer." James Cameron |
| "I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way." Franklin P. Adams |
| "If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed." Lily Tomlin |
| "To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. " W. Somerset Maugham |
| "A house without books is like a room without windows." Heinrich Mann |
| "Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves." Jeremy Collier |
| "In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation." Stéphane Mallarmé |
| "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." Mark Twain |
| "There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house." Joe Ryan |
| "Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped." African proverb |
| "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx |
| "The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it." James Bryce |
| "My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers." Ronald Reagan |
| "News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising." Lord Northcliffe |
| "To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself." V.S. Naipaul |
| "Newspapers always excite curiousity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment." Charles Lamb |
| "The theory of marketing is solid but the practice of marketing leaves much to be desired." Philip Kotler |
| "They used to say man's life was a closed book. So it is but it's an open newspaper." Finlay Peter Dunne |
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